Arena Shenanigans

TOloseGT · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 7129 **Location:**

Spoiler!

LOL

bakafish · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:01 pm

Try going against 5 Frost Mages...

Lempi · **Joined:** Oct 2008 **Posts:** 3203 **Location:** England

I don't get it

/Pi · **Joined:** May 2007 **Posts:** 4590 **Location:**

^ They're all DK.

TOloseGT · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 7129 **Location:**

we went up against 5 pom pyro mages tho o.o

this was b4 teh patch

cuchulainn · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 2168 **Location:**

People actually play 5v5 still? o.O

Been doing 2s with my shammy. Hit mid 1800s so far. Gonna push for 2k+ this weekend.

TOloseGT · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 7129 **Location:**

5s is more fun than 2 i think =]

cuchulainn · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 2168 **Location:**

TOloseGT wrote:

5s is more fun than 2 i think =]

5s is a zergfest. Toss out a little CC and boom, someone dies.

[SD]Twysta · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:58 pm

cuchulainn wrote:

TOloseGT wrote:

5s is more fun than 2 i think =]

5s is a zergfest. Toss out a little CC and boom, someone dies.

This is the best way i've seen some1 describe it.

pvp is broken..

You cast sheep and the team dies.

I'm also doing 2v2's atm

We hit 2k rating the other day.

(mage/rogue)

SM-Count · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 2761 **Location:** /wave

cuchulainn wrote:

People actually play 5v5 still? o.O

Been doing 2s with my shammy. Hit mid 1800s so far. Gonna push for 2k+ this weekend.

Hows life as a shammy? I've been wanting to learn shamans forever (for as long as heroism buff existed anyways...) but they've always seemed gimped-at least the teams I run into.

Btw, what partner?

cuchulainn · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 2168 **Location:**

SM-Count wrote:

cuchulainn wrote:

People actually play 5v5 still? o.O

Been doing 2s with my shammy. Hit mid 1800s so far. Gonna push for 2k+ this weekend.

Hows life as a shammy? I've been wanting to learn shamans forever (for as long as heroism buff existed anyways...) but they've always seemed gimped-at least the teams I run into.

Btw, what partner?

I meant I (feral druid) was doing 2s with my shammy (guildmate)

Shaman/Hunter
Shaman/Rogue
Shaman/Feral
Shaman/DK

All solid comps. A good shaman just will not run out of mana in arenas.

XemnasXD · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:45 pm

are those resto, elemental, or Enhance shammies?

TOloseGT · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 7129 **Location:**

should be resto shaman

cuchulainn · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 2168 **Location:**

TOloseGT wrote:

should be resto shaman

Yep.

Elemental=lolcantcastimdead

Enh=scarydamagebutohnoesimdead

TOloseGT · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 7129 **Location:**

lol

funny story, we were doing 5s and they had a shaman wit them. we all thought it was resto cuz the only other healer class they had was a priest, so we were all trying our hardest not to give that shaman ne mana. then someone says in vent "wtf, did he just lava burst", the ret immediately repents the priest and we burst the shaman down.

funny =P

bakafish · **Posted:** Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:06 am

Yeah, lately I've been seeing shamans that looks like a Resto in first glance but is actually an Elemental when you start getting Thunderstormed, Lava Bursted and etc. When teamed against another similar class like them, Balance druid, they can be quite a pain.

As for arena, I've been teaming up with a Retridin friend of mine for 2v2 gap, don't think I'm his best possible partner for that bracket. To be honest, I don't seem to fit in perfectly with anyone at all. Nope not healers, not casters not melee too now it seems. I joined his team at 1300+ for fun, and it actually worked out for a bit and we got to 1550+ before the points came in yesterday. Got him some beginner PvP gears thinking we can try rock the bracket but instead we are down back to upper 1400+, highest we got was like 10 points away from 1600. I think we might have just "leveled up" our hidden ratings and now we are actually fighting decent PvPers and we've been encountering for some lineups which aren't exactly best for us.

As for 3v3, we started with both of us with a Resto Druid but it didn't seem to worked so we decided to get a DK in for massive bursts. It worked fine until Paladins started to use Hands of Protection on their healers which kinda fucks us over since we are all melee. Tried again with a Resto Shaman earlier today and both of us are really not liking the combination... Sure, Heroism can be a nice buff but to me Shamans just lacks the X factor in PvP, can't really describe what they lack though. Wish we can get a competent Mage into our team.

cuchulainn · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 2168 **Location:**

bakafish wrote:

Yeah, lately I've been seeing shamans that looks like a Resto in first glance but is actually an Elemental when you start getting Thunderstormed, Lava Bursted and etc. When teamed against another similar class like them, Balance druid, they can be quite a pain.

As for arena, I've been teaming up with a Retridin friend of mine for 2v2 gap, don't think I'm his best possible partner for that bracket. To be honest, I don't seem to fit in perfectly with anyone at all. Nope not healers, not casters not melee too now it seems. I joined his team at 1300+ for fun, and it actually worked out for a bit and we got to 1550+ before the points came in yesterday. Got him some beginner PvP gears thinking we can try rock the bracket but instead we are down back to upper 1400+, highest we got was like 10 points away from 1600. I think we might have just "leveled up" our hidden ratings and now we are actually fighting decent PvPers and we've been encountering for some lineups which aren't exactly best for us.

As for 3v3, we started with both of us with a Resto Druid but it didn't seem to worked so we decided to get a DK in for massive bursts. It worked fine until Paladins started to use Hands of Protection on their healers which kinda fucks us over since we are all melee. Tried again with a Resto Shaman earlier today and both of us are really not liking the combination... Sure, Heroism can be a nice buff but to me Shamans just lacks the X factor in PvP, can't really describe what they lack though. Wish we can get a competent Mage into our team.

Good resto shamans play very offensively actually. The telltale sign that it's a resto though is if Earthshield is on someone.

SM-Count · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 2761 **Location:** /wave

Druid/shammies never die. I've seen shamans do good stuff in arenas but there always seemed to be better combos out there, especially since WF is a bit counterproductive for mut rogues.

cuchulainn · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 2168 **Location:**

SM-Count wrote:

Druid/shammies never die. I've seen shamans do good stuff in arenas but there always seemed to be better combos out there, especially since WF is a bit counterproductive for mut rogues.

Resto and Balance druids are still pretty damn squishy.

Feral is hard to kill, I'm a tough kitty to krack.

bakafish · **Posted:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:12 am

Earthshield, nice tip. Thanks.

TOloseGT · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 7129 **Location:**

LF holy paly for 2s =]

Foilin · **Posted:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:49 pm

So me and this restoshaman have been doing 2s kinda casually. but, the Farking stupidest thing happened a couple days ago. Me and him go against a Double Frost mage comp, I kill one while hes CC'd and the other finsihes the shatter which kills me. now we're still fine hes got mana tide and everything up still with a full pool. so he keep working the mage down slower and slower. so the mage goes invis and drinks. so he throws a grounding down and starts trying to res me (I had released) so my corpse and the undead mage i had killed were ontop of eachother. so he starts ressing, the other mage see it runs over cast CS hits the grounding totem, he gets the res off and RESSES THE OTHER TEAMS MAGE. THATS RIGHT, HE RESSED OUR OPPONENT. BECAUSE HE WAS HORDE. WTF, FIX NAO. I was laughing so hard at his retarded ass that i didnt even care.

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